From a drawing in 'Heroes of North African Discovery', Nancy Meugens, 1894.
Source Firkin
A repeatable image with dark background and metal grid pattern.
Source V. Hartikainen
Alternative colour scheme. Not a pattern for fabrics, but one produced from a jpg of a stack of fabric items that was posted on Pixabay. The tile that this is based on can be had by selecting the rectangle in Inkscape and using shift+alt+i.
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This ons is quite old school looking. Retro, even. I like it.
Source Arno Declercq
Sharp pixel pattern looking like some sort of fabric.
Source Dmitry
More in the paper realm, this time with fibers.
Source Jorge Fuentes
The perfect pattern for all your blogs about type, or type-related matters.
Source Atle Mo
A seamless pattern formed from a tile that can be had in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i.
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Remixed from a design on Pixabay. To get the tile this is based on select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
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Drawn in Paint.net using the kaleidoscope plug-in and vectorised.
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Tiny circle waves, almost like the ocean.
Source Sagive
Utilising some flowers from Almeidah. To get the unit tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
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The tile this is formed from can be retrieved in Inkscape by selecting the rectangle and using shift+alt+i
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A background formed from an image of an old tile on the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art website. To get the base tile, select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift-alt-i.
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Someone was asking about how to achieve a fur pattern at #inkscape irc so tried to make a filter on it. Flood filled fractal noises rigged together. May someone find a good use for these.
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To get the tile this is formed from select the rectangle in Inkscape and use shift+alt+i.
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Seamless pattern the tile for which can be had by using shift-alt-I on the selected rectangle in Inkscape.
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A seamless pattern formed from background pattern 102
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Remixed from a drawing in 'Line and form", Walter Crane, 1914.
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From a drawing in 'Cassell's Library of English Literature', Henry Morley, 1883.
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Pattern produced in Paint.net using the Vibrato plug-in.
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Design drawn in Paint.net, vectorised using Vector Magic and finished in Inkscape.
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Prismatic Polka Dots Mark II No Background
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